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Magellanic Mayhem: Metallicities and Motions

  • Authors: J. Grady, V. Belokurov, and N. W. Evans

2021 The Astrophysical Journal 909 150.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 16.

As in Figure 15 but pixels now colored by mean μB in the top panels and corresponding dispersions in the lower panels. Again, the dominant signal within the LMC is that of ordered rotation within the disk. The regions of most turbulent motion appear to exists at the bases of the two outer spiral-like features. Through the inner regions of the disk, there also appears to be enhanced dispersion in this direction in comparison to that of μL. This is perhaps indicative of the tidal disruption endured by the LMC occurring mostly in the north–south regions where the majority of the stellar substructure is observed (see Figure 12).

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